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AMD Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire: specs and benchmarks

Summary

AMD started Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire sales 1 May 2012. This is GCN architecture notebook card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers.

Power consumption is at 200 Watt.

It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 24.82 percent of a leader's which is AMD Radeon R9 390 X2.

General info Technical specs Memory specs Benchmarks Gaming NVIDIA equivalent Advices and comments

General info

Of Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire's architecture, market type and release date.

Place in performance rating

135

Architecture

GCN

Code name

Wimbledon XT

Type

Laptop

Release date

1 May 2012

Technical specs

Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines

2560

of 8192 (FirePro S9300 X2)

Core clock speed

850 MHz

of 1677 (Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling)

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

of 12

Power consumption (TDP)

200 Watt

of 900 (Tesla S2050)

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Information on Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop size

large

Memory specs

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type

GDDR5

Memory bus width

2x 256 Bit

of 8192 (FirePro S9300 X2)

Memory clock speed

4800 MHz

of 11408 (TITAN Xp Collector's Edition Galactic Empire)

Shared memory

API support

APIs supported by Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX

DirectX 11.1, Shader 5.0

Video card benchmarks performance

Non-gaming benchmarks performance of Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.

Overall benchmark performance

24.82

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

11119.00

3DMark Vantage Performance

31127.00

Game benchmarks (in FPS)

Let's see how good Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS, while overall gaming performance is a number in 0-100 range, and the older the game, the less impact it has on the overall grade.

Overall gaming performance

10.84

Games benchmarked by notebookcheck.net

Diablo III (2012)

medium / 768p

242.70

high / 768p

237.50

ultra / 1080p

194.20

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (2011)

medium / 768p

84.70

high / 768p

75.10

ultra / 1080p

64.20

Relative perfomance

Overall Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire performance compared to its nearest competitors. All GPU types participate.

100 %

AMD Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire

99.68 %

AMD Radeon Pro WX 4100

99.32 %

AMD Radeon E8950

98.71 %

NVIDIA Tesla K40c

NVIDIA equivalent

We believe that the nearest equivalent to Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire from NVIDIA is GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile, which is slower by 6% and lower by 19 positions in our rating.